Rise of the robots : technology and the threat of a jobless future / Martin Ford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ford, Martin (Martin R.), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor supply--Effect of automation on.

Labor supply.

Labor supply--Effect of technological innovations on.

Employment forecasting.

Technological innovations--Economic aspects.

Technological innovations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

2015.

New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div><B>Martin Ford</B>, the founder of a Silicon Valleybased software development firm, has over twenty-five years of experience in computer design and software development. The author of <I>The Lights in the Tunnel: Automation, Accelerating Technology, and the Economy of the Future</I>, he lives in Sunnyvale, California.<BR>@MFordFuture</div>

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Automation Wave; Chapter 2: Is This Time Different?; Chapter 3: Information Technology: An Unprecedented Force for Disruption; Chapter 4: White-Collar Jobs at Risk; Chapter 5: Transforming Higher Education; Chapter 6: The Health Care Challenge; Chapter 7: Technologies and Industries of the Future; Chapter 8: Consumers, Limits to Growth . . . and Crisis?; Chapter 9: Super-Intelligence and the Singularity; Chapter 10: Toward a New Economic Paradigm; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-5416-9816-9

0-465-04067-5

OCLC:

906133443